#you poems on Hello Poetry

梅香 Mar 2021

there are things i have promised you,
things i don't ever want to put you through.
i'm sorry i broke those promises somehow,
i knew we weren't for each other anyhow.

i just want you to be happy,
i know we're both tired of being shady.
things between us are already sketchy,
every day, holding on seems very heavy.

letting go of you was hard
yet i don't want toxicity to bombard;
i want the best for you and me
so please, let's just set each other free.

#unsaid #thoughts #feelings #free #sorry #promise #teens #you #lettinggo #filipino

Ashlyn Yoshida Mar 2021

This Love is Weak

We've locked ourselves
in rooms of steel
created safe places
designed like prison cells
everyone says there is no way
to escape
without someone to call out our name
and no way to be free
without a light to guide us through the maze

But it will always have to be our feet
that takes us through this hell
And our own eyes
that will lead us well

Relying on others to help you is wrong
a delusion taught to you
through poems, stories, and songs
It will only be you and your willingness to heal
But that does not mean you have to walk alone
to break down all your seals

Stop this searching for that 'one true love'
the more you look
the further your real goals will become
to truly love another
is to forgive and mend yourself
because resenting your actions
only hurts everyone else
you do not love if you hurt and hate
it will only be your hands
that opens your heart's gate.

True love takes work
true love takes time
it only comes across your heart
when you work hard to be of sound mind
But what would I know?
I'm only sixteen

what experience would I have gone through
to really know what that love means?

Be kind, be gentle, be the silent strength inside.
Be a stream that leads to a river.

#love #selflove #guide #self #true #you #gate #heart #lead #feel

Nadine Peñaverde Mar 2021

northern

and is not needed a telescope,
the colors you exclude is more than black and white
you are your own northern lights,
displaying an ethereal sight.

my last poem in the series inspired of Aurora Borealis by Bohnes. I hope you guys realized that self love is our own aurora borealis :>

#auroraborealis #universe #cosmos #lights #you #selflove

Bethany Collery Mar 2021

Hide Away

I’ll hide away if I have to,
And having to is like all the time.
When my heart beats too fast,
And even when your hand is entangled in mine,
I have to hide away - but know I tried.

Other people just don’t understand me,
In the way that you do.
I try to be happy, meaning I put on a smile,
But deep down inside, all I want is to hide.

I can’t be around others,
And I think that is easy to see.
But I love all of your colours,
Around you - I can be me.

- Bethany Collery -
@poetry.bethanycollery on IG

#love #sad #pain #crush #relationship #socialanxiety #feelings #lost #you #thoughts

Daisy Ashcroft Mar 2021

How I Know

They asked me how I knew
That I loved only you.
Do you know what I said?
The first thing that came to my head?

I told them you're like lo-fi indie
One tear and you're there for me
Waiting to sing and help me through
One hour in your arms and I'm back to new.

And, like the music, you fill out the edges
The sharp that cut up my senses
You pad them out and soften them up
So when I fall, I don't feel so struck.

#know #teen #love #edges #sharp #music #you #fall #cut #head

cassandra Mar 2021

soul

so many words
to describe you

yet so little you
in
you

#you #soul #words #mind #feelings #hurt #selfconfidence

David Southbay Mar 2021

I am thinking about you

I am thinking about you today…
I am not thinking of a mind or a heart or a body or a smile…
No, I am thinking about you as a person…
The person that I have come to know…
The person that makes me happy…
The person that I love…
I am thinking about you…

D/

#love #thinking #you

Nadine Peñaverde Mar 2021

lights

but in that very moment,
you decided to love yourself,
and an aurora borealis is seen-
a phenomenon that is truly magnificent

my second to the last poem of the series inspired of Aurora Borealis by Bohnes

#lights #auroraborealis #cosmos #you #universe #selflove

Lunar Mar 2021

the window seat

And just like a picture frame
that holds a precious memory,
I looked at you through my car window,
Hoping you'll remember me.

That's what happens in photographs—
You're frozen in time.
And the next thing I knew,
I was saying goodbye.

goodbye, to the view. and goodbye, to you.

(j.m.)

#holiday #vacation #window #car #view #you #memory #photograph #picture #time